The Wolf of Wall Street

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Martin Scorsese’s latest creation, nominated for five Oscars, should come with
a health and safety warning: expect rampant venality, vulgarity and misogyny
delivered on an endless rush of cocaine and quaaludes with absolutely no
apologies. Plus the film is three hours long and contains 506 uses of the
F-word, breaking the world record for cinematic profanity. Run for the
exits! Or bear with me for a moment . . .

The Wolf of Wall Street is the Marmite movie extraordinaire and already
the object of outraged debate over its amorality. Like Goodfellas,
this is a Scorsese film that makes the viewer deliciously complicit